linux-kernel - [PATCH] powerpc/wsp: drop "select PPC_WSP

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Date:	Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:15:59 +0100
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/wsp: drop "select PPC_WSP_COPRO"

There is no Kconfig symbol PPC_WSP_COPRO. The select statement for it is
a nop. Drop it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
---
A short treatise on the uneventful life of PPC_WSP_COPRO in the mainline
kernel tree

Release v3.0 included commit 76b4eda866c4936af8d696f040abea56bf688e16
("powerpc: Add A2 cpu support"). It added some code wrapped in an
"#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_WSP_COPRO" and "#endif" pair. It did not add a
Kconfig symbol PPC_WSP_COPRO. Neither did it add a preprocessor #define
for CONFIG_PPC_WSP_COPRO. There haS actually never been such a symbol or
such a macro in the mainline tree.

Release v3.3 included commit fac26ad4f9cb794c9d1032f55f40a31cb55be09a
("powerpc/book3e: Add ICSWX/ACOP support to Book3e cores like A2"). It
basically renamed CONFIG_PPC_WSP_COPRO to CONFIG_PPC_ICSWX. It did not
elaborate why it did that. But at least PPC_ICSWX was a valid Kconfig
symbol.

Release v3.3 also included commit
cc35b6766878e31accc95c3fdae945bdadc73a46 ("powerpc/book3e: Add Chroma as
a new WSP/PowerEN platform."). That commit added a Kconfig select
statement for PPC_WSP_COPRO. It is not clear why it did that. Current
opinion is that it served no purpose and that the kernel tree would be
better of without that statement.

 arch/powerpc/platforms/wsp/Kconfig | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/wsp/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/platforms/wsp/Kconfig
index 79d2225..56203a4 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/wsp/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/wsp/Kconfig
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ config PPC_WSP
 	select PCI
 	select PPC_IO_WORKAROUNDS if PCI
 	select PPC_INDIRECT_PIO if PCI
-	select PPC_WSP_COPRO
 	default n

 menu "WSP platform selection"
-- 
1.7.11.7

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